Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters, sentence 1
In Mandarin he is always older (gēge) or younger (dìdi), and a sister is jiějie (older) or mèimei (younger).
Who acts: Mandarin, sister · What happens: be · To what, where: Mandarin, jiějie
This is a sentence of the lesson «Family: mum, dad, brothers and sisters» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mandarin, sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Mandarin | case |
| 2 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 older | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 older | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 older | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 older | advmod |
| 6 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 gēge | punct |
| 8 | gēge | gēge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 older | parataxis |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 gēge | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 younger | cc |
| 11 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 older | conj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 dìdi | punct |
| 13 | dìdi | dìdi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 younger | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 dìdi | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 jiějie | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 jiějie | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sister | det |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jiějie | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 jiějie | cop |
| 20 | jiějie | jiějie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 older | conj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 older | punct |
| 22 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 jiějie | parataxis |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 older | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 younger | cc |
| 25 | mèimei | mèimei | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 younger | dep |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 younger | punct |
| 27 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 older | conj |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 younger | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 older | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mandarin | Mandarin | always, old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Mandarin not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a sister | jiějie | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:chinese-street:009-family-mum-dad-brothers-sisters.lesson:1.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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